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Re: OCSP and LDAP


At 06:52 PM 1/8/2003 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:

Other person: "Why is X.500 so special? Why is no-one else doing this?"

Me: "Get your favourite book on database technology and look up
     'Hierarchical databases'".

[Time passes]

Other person: "I looked in several books.  Many didn't mention it at all,
               and one had a half-page historical note saying it's something
               that was obsoleted by better technology more than two decades
               ago".

Me: "Exactly".


Heh. Actually, hierarchical databases can be superlative to most all other technologies, when one has a static taxonomy to support. Trying to represent (no less manage) a dynamically changing global namespace with scores of independent geopolitical naming authorities with a hierarchical database is rather ... ridiculous. :)

Cheers! ____tony____